THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST. 12, 1940.
DAYLONG AIR BATTLES ALONG THE CHANNEL Eighteen Germans Shot Down Before Lunch Hour
DISORDERS GUERNSEY TOO SPREAD IN ALBANIA
Disorders are reported
to have broken out in parts of Albania and to be spreading all over the country.
One report speaks of a clash on Friday near the Yugoslav frontler between Albanian "rebels" and Italian troops.
The Albanians rebelled when! they were ordered to be mobilis-) ed for military service and their] cattle and foods were requisi- tioned.
The Italians rushed some thou- sands of troops to the scene, and Italian officers offered to negotiate, They were killed and, in retalia- tion, the Italians burned three villages.
HOT FOR NAZI AIR FORCE
The Air Force at- tacks on the enemy- occupied airport at Guernsey have, says the Air Ministry News Service, caused the Germans to move all aircraft from there.
WITHOUT STINT OR LIMIT
NOTHING TO
COWER ABOUT
A MORNING AT
IN LONDON FIGHTER COMMAND
A London broadcast on Saturday night to the United States by an American commentator
GROUP H.Q.
REUTER'S AIR CORRESPONDENT WITH refuted German radio
THE FIGHTER COMMAND SPENT YESTER- claims that London is DAY MORNING AT THE HEADQUARTERS OF cowering in its air-raid'A FIGHTER GROUP IN SOUTHERN ENGLAND shelters, that Britons are DEFENDING THE CHANNEL PORTS AND being driven to drink to SHIPPING FROM GERMAN AIR ATTACK: quieten their nerves and The enemy offensive, begun at daylight, are wringing their hands was then at its height. Reports and orders because their businesses which kept the telephone at the elbow of the have collapsed.
Air Vice-Marshal commanding the group The American commentator said buzzing every few minutes, indicated that that when he walked down Ox- Spitfires and Hurricanes far away over the SUPPORT. FOR GENERAL ford Street or Regent Street, he PERSHING'S SUGGESTION found them crowded with shop-coast were engaged in a day of battle as furi- THAT OVER-AGE AMERICAN pers. The windows were full of DESTROYERS BE MADE food and patterns.
ous as last Thursday's when 60 Nazi aircraft No confirmation is available MEDIATELY WAS VOICED ON in Belgrade of the reports of
He has yet to see, he said, any were destroyed. 4 SATURDAY NIGHT BY AD-drunken crowds carousing in rising against the Italians in MIRAL STANDISH, WHO WAS the streets. Albania. Reuter.
U.S. CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERA- TIONS FROM 1933 TO 1937.
Only one thing, he said, stands between the United States and
In the subsequent fighting, the Italians lost 100 casualties, includ-] ing six officers and a lieutenant- colonel. Reuter.
No Confirmation
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A 17-year-old student, Alvaro German power, and that is the Xavier, of No. 62, Waterloo Road, British fleet. The over-age des- was fined $3 by
Mr. E. Himstroyers should, accordingly, be worth this morning for riding a sent to Britain. bicycle without brakes in Bulkeley If Britain needs more help, it, Street, near Gillies Avenue, yes should be given without stint and terday.
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bananas and oranges," he con- cluded, "and they must come
here!' Reuter.
Yesterday's tally of R.A.F.
successes
"You can buy any number of mounted rapidly. Up to luncheon it was confirmed that enemy losses in four separate here in ships-they're not grown attacks on shipping ranging from above the Thames Estuary to beyond the Solent amounted to 18, while 32 other enemy gir- FORMALITY craft were known to have been damaged and many of these, it is believed, were destroyed.
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COST OF RESTORING
Aware of the discomfort caused by correct formal attire in the present hot weather, the Emperor of Japan yesterday granted special foot permission to Cabinet Ministers
WAR DAMAGE
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So keen is the watch kept by the R.A.F., Navy and Army that often nowadays Britain is fore- warned of the approach of big formations of enemy aircraft soon after they leave their forward line. bases along the European coast-
The French Government will
half the bill for repairing "I don't think we are likely to be caught out often nowa. days," claimed the Air Vice- Marshal modestly.
Lo wear their ordinary clothes privately-owned buildings damag- when appearing in audience be-fed during the hostilities and which fore him at his Hayama Villa. can speedily be put back in con- The first Minister thus received dition, it was announced in Vichy
There was early proof of this by the Emperor was the Premier, yesterday. Government's parti-assertion yesterday. First two at- Prince Konoye, who wore a light-cipation in no case
will exceed tacks of the day were followed [weight summer suit.-Havas. 50,000 francs.--Havas.
by another far away down the Channel.
Two squadrons of Spitfires were there to meet 100 or so raiders and others soon joined
in.
HEAVY ATTACKS ON
OBJECTIVES IN Not To Be. Drawn
GERMANY
AN AIR MINISTRY ́communique says R.A.F. bombers made daylight attacks on a number of enemy-occupied aerodromes in Holland and France.
Hits were observed among hangars at Schipol,| the airport of Cherbourg and Waalhaven, and the aerodromes at Flushing, Dinard and Caen were at- tacked.
The R.A.F. are not to be drawn to defend with the full weight of their fighter aircraft one section of the coast but should Hitler or-
der out bigger and bigger forma- tions in a despertae bid to gain air supremacy, our fighters will be ready to take them on.
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The British fighters are as slick on the job as fire-fighters, blazing away In the danger zone with a stroam of bullets as thick as the flow from Hosepipe within three or four which For the first time, British bom- crew of a British bomber
minutes of the alarm. bers bombed British territory]had just dropped a number · of when the airport at, Guernsey, bombs across the aerodrome, sud- Channel
Successful interception can be Islands, was bombed. denly saw an enemy machine, be lost on only two minutes delay. Two of our aircraft are missing. lieved to be a Henschel 120, re-l
Reuter. ceive a direct hit from a shell from Heavy attacks on military ob- a German anti-aircraft battery jectives in Germany were con- which blew it to pieces.
YOUTH TO BE tinued the next night. These in- This type of plane resembles in cluded the docks at Hamburg, the design the British army co-opera-
SERVED naval base at Wilhelmshaven, oil tion plane, the Westland Lysan- [SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"] supplics at Frankfurt and Hom-der, of which it is an imitation, Youth will be given the greatest burg, a power station and explo-and-it is thought that the German opportunity in the French, Diplo-. sives factory at Cologne, à chemi- gunners flustered by the bombing, matic Service, the Foreign Minis- cnl works at Frankfurt and aired on their own aircraft bellev-ter announced in Vichy ysterday. blast furnace north of the city, ing it to be British.--Reuter,
the wharves at Duesberg, supply, depots at Hamm and Soest und several aerodromes in Holland and Germany.
Only one of our raissing.
aircraft is
* Reuter.
Nazis Shoot Down Own Plane
The Air Ministry says that ing the rald · over Flushing,
BRITISH TROOPS LEAVING PEIPING
Promotion will depend chiefly on merit and not on length of 'ser- vico, he said.-Hovas,,
CRASH INTO RICKSHA
A. Pelping report states that the Mr. A. Perry crashed into a British garrison, troops there who ricksha yesterday while driving number only some fifty men are car No. 5343 in Chatham Road preparing to withdraw to Hong near the Kowloon Football Club. dur-Kong within a week, Central The ricksha was slightly damag-
the News.
led but the puller, was unhurt,